to scour
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5.1
- verb
- /skaʊər/
:
peinar
- The detectives had to scour the area for any evidence left behind at the crime scene.
- scour the archives
I kind of scoured the streets of Edison, NJ.
- I kind of scoured the streets of Edison, NJ.
- Now it turns out that nature innovates by searching, scouring libraries much like this.
- And then our some of our packaging we've, we've scoured the world looking for sustainable options.
- And so I would just scour Craigslist every single day looking for those deals.
- So guess what, I love sitting on my couch, in my roomy pants and my thick socks, scouring the Internet for treasures.
- I, I scoured this book for something upbeat and I found it.
- Honey is a free shopping tool that scours the Internet for coupons and automatically applies them to your cart.
- Honey is a free online tool that scours the Internet for promo codes and applies the best one to your cart.
- So I'm not as motivated to scour YouTube every day to figure out what someone's doing better than us.
- The greatest scouts in the world were paid a lot of money to scour the world, the entire world, to find the best players on the planet.
- And I've got a new kind of obsession with scouring the Internet looking for the young talent in science, in health and related fields.
- They are scholars and artists, and they are just as adept at scouring the archives as they are at mining their own experiences and imaginations.
Examples
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After scouring the country for food, the Little Fellow had to admit he had seen nothing, not even a field mouse.
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I'll get that fellow if have to scour the country for him.
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And those people need to scour the Internet to, like, look for breaking news.
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We talk things over with our friends, we scour the Internet, we search through books.
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You have to really scour the earth to find the proper diamond for your client.
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Students have reasons to scour the literature for new and exciting articles.
Academic text (2012) -
And so I would just scour Craigslist every single day looking for those deals.
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My colleagues are scouring the streets for him as we speak.
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So, I'm here for a week, basically just scouring this side of town.
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Honey is a free shopping tool that scours the Internet for coupons and automatically applies them to your cart.
Synonyms
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1.0
To try to find something or someone by looking carefully
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3.3
To search for someone or something until you find them
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1.2
To look carefully for something or someone
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3.9
Search for and find someone or something after a lot of effort
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3.0
Look for and find a person or thing, often with effort
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3.3
To search a place very carefully to find something
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6.7
To search carefully to find hidden facts or documents
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4.6
To search carefully through a large area or collection
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6.5
To look for information quietly by following clues
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7.2
To look around or think hard to find something you need
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3.9
To search everywhere for something that is lost
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5.6
To look in a worried way for an idea or solution
To find something after a careful search
To search carefully through things in a small place like a bag or box
To search through a place or container in a messy way
Antonyms
Phrasal Verbs
How Thorough
Surface Forms
Etymology
Scour also came to mean 'search thoroughly' because people imagine 'washing' a place with their eyes and hands to find something. That's why to scour a forest or room is to look in every part carefully.